Introduction
Today, I'm going to create a tiny calculator with assembly language and 6502 emulator.
The 6502 is an 8-bit processor with a 16-bit address bus. It is, therefore, able to access 64 kilobytes (216 bytes). Since each 16-bit address is comprised of two 8-bit bytes, memory can be viewed as 256 pages of 256 bytes each.
Here you can see my code:
define ENTER $0d; for the ENTER key define BACKSPACE $08; for the BACKSPACE key define RIGHT $81; for the RIGHT Key define LEFT $83; for the LEFT key define ARG1 $15; for the first number of user's input define ARG2 $16; for the second number of user's input define SCREEN $ffed; for getting the screen size define PLOT $fff0; for getting or setting the cursor coordinates define SCINIT $ff81; for initializing or clearing the screen define CHRIN $ffcf; for taking the input character from keyboard define CHROUT $ffd2; for displaying the output character to screen jsr SCINIT autoRestart: ldy #$00 jsr firstArgInput ; first number input question jsr getArg; receive the first number jsr firstArgStore ; store the input number ldy #$00 jsr secondArgInput ; second number input question jsr getArg; receive the second number jsr secondArgStore ; store the input number ldy #$00 jsr resultStr ; for displaying the result string jsr result ; for displaying the calculation result jmp autoRestart ; go back to the first step getArg: sec jsr PLOT ldx #$15 clc jsr PLOT numLoop: sec jsr PLOT jsr CHRIN keyboardCheck: cmp #RIGHT ; using RIGHT arrow key, the program goes to the first digit beq right cmp #LEFT ; using LEFT arrow key, the program goes to the second digit beq left cmp #BACKSPACE ; after using BACKSPACE, one digit will be deleted beq delete cmp #ENTER ; after pressing ENTER, the program goes to the next process beq move print: cmp #$30 bcc numLoop clc cmp #$3a bcs numLoop jsr CHROUT sec jsr PLOT cpx #$17 bne numLoop dex clc jsr PLOT jmp numLoop left: cpx #$15 ; first digit beq numLoop jsr CHROUT jmp numLoop right: cpx #$16 ; second digit beq numLoop jsr CHROUT jmp numLoop delete: cpx #$15 beq numLoop jsr CHROUT jmp numLoop move: sec jsr PLOT ldx #$15 ; first digit clc jsr PLOT sec jsr PLOT clc sbc #$2F ; to calculate it, it should be subtracted by #$2f asl asl asl asl pha ldx #$16 clc jsr PLOT sec jsr PLOT clc sbc #$2F ; to calculate it, it should be subtracted by #$2f pha ldx #$00 iny clc jsr PLOT sec jsr PLOT pla tax pla rts firstArgStore: sta ARG1 txa eor ARG1 sta ARG1 rts secondArgStore: sta ARG2 txa eor ARG2 sta ARG2 rts calculateAdd: lsr lsr lsr lsr clc adc #$30; jsr CHROUT pla and #$0F clc adc #$30; jsr CHROUT sec jsr PLOT ldx #$00 iny clc jsr PLOT rts result: sec jsr PLOT ldx #$15 clc jsr PLOT sec jsr PLOT sed lda ARG1 adc ARG2 cld pha bcc calculateAdd ldx #$14 clc jsr PLOT sec jsr PLOT lda #$31 jsr CHROUT firstArg: dcb "E","N","T","E","R",32,"F","I","R","S","T",32,"N","U","M","B","E","R",":",32,32,"0","0" dcb 00 secondArg: dcb "E","N","T","E","R",32,"S","E","C","O","N","D",32,"N","U","M","B","E","R",":",32,"0","0" dcb 00 results: dcb "R","E","S","U","L","T",":" dcb 00 firstArgInput: lda firstArg,y beq goback_main jsr CHROUT iny bne firstArgInput secondArgInput: lda secondArg,y beq goback_main jsr CHROUT iny bne secondArgInput resultStr: lda results,y beq goback_main jsr CHROUT iny bne resultStr goback_main: rts
Still in progress…
Conclusion
While working on these experiments, I did solve a minor bug in Assembly Compiler. See the Link to the pull request.
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p.s This post was made for my SPO class Lab 3 assignment